Dr. Lily M. Abadal is Assistant Professor of Instruction in Philosophy at the University of South Florida. She specializes in normative ethics, moral psychology, and virtue theory, with a focus on how tradition-shaped practices inform character. Her current projects explore moral injury, suffering and disorientation, and the ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence in education and professional settings. Her work appears in Teaching Philosophy, Journal of Religious Ethics, Frontiers in Sociology, and several edited volumes from Bloomsbury, Routledge, and Springer.
We are not machines and cannot be well formed by them either. Human formation should be primarily human - even if it's easier and faster to dole out our questions to a machine.
Date posted: 2025-11-29